When Should You Build Your Own Web Service?

Organizations using Web services have several angles from which to approach Web services. Up to this point, this chapter has concentrated on using Web services over building a Web service. Now it's time to look more closely at building your own Web services.

Let's examine some cases where a project should build its own Web service:

  • Your project wants to expose a method for other projects to use.

    With programming resources getting harder to maintain, being able to reuse your logic centrally has a high appeal for organizations that need to maintain many applications.

  • Your company has several applications that need to share a process or data.

    Many companies tend to collect computer systems like dandruff. ...

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